Hands up, who really wants to see Nick Griffin being feted on the platform of Question Time? Not me for one. I think it is a shame that our society should hand a megaphone to someone whose philosophies are so injurious to it. Many others feel the same.

But we are where we are. The BNP has won many council seats around the country and now they have two MEPs. I understand the instinct that would have many people say that none of it matters and that the BNP should be kept under the rock that is their home, but I also understand that the BBC cannot take that stance. The BNP, has the endorsement of a very small section of the electorate but it is a large enough section for the BBC to feel that the party must have the privileges of airtime given to other fringe parties. Isn't it better that the BBC plays by the rules than that Griffin and his unlovely bunch go to court and win?

No. What matters now is that the BBC, having made its ruling, subjects the party and Griffin to the proper scrutiny. The BNP, at least the bits of it that matter, wants to be regarded as a legitimate part of the political fabric. It should face the scrutiny that comes with it.

And what that means is no more half baked, poorly prepared interviews, that allow Griffin to continue to present his party as anything other than the racially divisive hate-mongerers that they are. When Alistair Darling or other senior politicians appear on the Today programme or Newsnight, they face rigorous factually based inquisition. When Griffin appears, he is accused of being a racist; he says he isn't. And that's about it.

It's not for me to tell the BBC their business, but there are a few questions I would like put to him. Come the revolution, with his hands on the tiller and the nationalist courts his supporters speak of in place, who would he see thrown out of the country? The party now says it favours voluntary repatriation rather than the rounding up of minorities in the middle of the night, but what if no-one goes? What next? A reign of terror to drive them out or an acceptance of the hated multi cultural status quo?

And who would be invited to leave? The BNP isn't very keen on miscegenation, so all the mixed heritage relationships it sees must be driving it crazy. "Native" Britons should have priority, it says, in terms of housing and employment. So would a mixed heritage couple fall back while the claims of an all white couple are accelerated? To what extent would the whiteness of the white partner protect their position in the pecking order. Would they be housed separately, for example? Perhaps the white partner could have a nicer flat on the floor above the non white.

What would qualify as white? What about a white person with black ancestors? There is more of that than you might think. How might this differ from apartheid?

Ask why he likes to hang out at the American Renaissance conference held each year in the US. Earlier this year, the Daily Mirror ran a picture of Griffin chatting and doing what boys do with Don Black, once the leader of the Ku Klux Klan? How do these events shape Griffin's vision of the new Britain? What is the input of Arthur Kemp, who runs the party's merchandising arm, Excalibur and was linked to the murder of the South African Communist party and ANC leader Chris Hani. Why is he so keen on Preston Wiginton, the American extremist banned from entering Britain for a BNP function earlier this year when he had hoped to decry the "hodge-podge or mish-mash of faces" he sees around him? Why did he welcome to the same event his long time associate, the Italian Roberto Fiore, who says he is happy to be described as a "fascist"? What does he learn from them?

What did he think of the incident from the Red White and Blue shindig in Derby when a young girl reportedly held a golliwog she had called Winston above a fire as part of a mock execution? This, it is said, was entertainment.

Does he, as stickler for law and order, still endorse the wheeze contained in a past manifesto, for everyone who has completed national service to be entitled to keep an assault rifle at home? What does he, as stickler, think of his senior London aide, Robert Bailey, being convicted last week after refusing to cooperate with the police after being caught drink driving?

How would he reach the accord with the Muslim world whereby it takes back its "excess population which is currently colonising this country, in exchange for an ironclad guarantee that Britain will never again interfere in the political affairs of the Middle East."?

Would he really deter asylum seekers heading for Europe by sinking their boats?

Does Griffin think, as his colleagues in east London appear to do, that local authority care is an unnecessary expense and that vulnerable families might best be housed in caravan parks? What does he make of the motion, apparently prepared for the forthcoming party conference, which suggests single mothers should lose their benefits and risk losing their children if they wear short skirts? So many good questions. Eighty five more, independently prepared on pickledpolitics.com.

And while he is there on the big night, with Dimbleby et al, perhaps they might ask Griffin if he will pay his licence fee to the commie-infested, multi-culturally obsessed BBC. Previously he said good patriots should not.